Category:Our Lady of Guadalupe Church (Queen Creek, Arizona)
The parish was first organized in the late 1940s to serve Mexican-Americans who began moving to the area in the late 1920s and early 1930s. At first, they met in old barracks buildings courtesy of the school district, which had bought them from Williams Air Force Base for classrooms, a cafeteria, and an auditorium. The visiting priest would hold mass and hear confessions in the auditorium, and nuns used the classrooms in the summer for catechism classes. Wanting their own building, the congregation started a building fund in 1960, raising money by selling homemade goods. The people of the congregation built the new church, and another wooden barracks was obtained from the base and moved next to it. In 1975, the church building was deemed to be unsafe, and the insurance company refused to renew its policy. Another fund-raising effort led to property being purchased across the street in 1988 for a new church.
(Description source: Info from San Tan Historical Society and East Valley Tribune article)
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Media in category "Our Lady of Guadalupe Church (Queen Creek, Arizona)"
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2021 Old Our Lady of Guadalupe Church from east.jpg 4,052 × 2,715; 1.74 MB
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2021 Old Our Lady of Guadalupe Church from south.jpg 4,573 × 3,422; 2.71 MB
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2021 Old Our Lady of Guadalupe Church from west.jpg 3,423 × 2,523; 1.51 MB
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2021 Old Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, possible parish hall, east of old church.jpg 3,162 × 1,720; 1.08 MB
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2021 Our Lady of Guadalupe, arcade.jpg 4,031 × 2,774; 2.2 MB
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2021 Our Lady of Guadalupe, food bank building.jpg 4,812 × 3,311; 3.61 MB
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2021 Our Lady of Guadalupe, Garden of Peace 1.jpg 4,032 × 3,024; 3.48 MB
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2021 Our Lady of Guadalupe, Garden of Peace 2.jpg 4,031 × 2,863; 2.53 MB
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2021 Our Lady of Guadalupe, Garden of Peace 3.jpg 4,412 × 3,434; 3.51 MB
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2021 Our Lady of Guadalupe, Garden of Peace 4.jpg 4,625 × 2,564; 2.84 MB
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2021 Our Lady of Guadalupe, north facade.jpg 3,941 × 2,136; 1.53 MB
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Queen Creek-Our Lady of Guadalupe Church.jpg 1,080 × 810; 104 KB